Tuesday, May 27

From 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

Price: 15 euros

Place: Amora Llibres - C/ de Ramón y Cajal 142, 08024 - Barcelona

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Peripheral Witches and Their Lives

This short seminar will focus on witches you have never heard of. We are all familiar with the stories of the Salem witch hunts, with Tituba and Bridget Bishop but how about witches from the periphery? We will be looking at the biographies of female, male, and non-binary self-identifying witches from Russia, Iceland, Chile, Hungary, and Scotland to name a few. What is it that truly defines a witch across geographies and cultures? How does the term “witch” intersect and interact with kindred titles such as healer, diviner, sorcerer, or alchemist? And can peripheral witches teach us strategies for resilience and survival?

Defne Çizakça is an Istanbulite writer. Her historical novel about the first female alchemist of the Ottoman Empire, "Melankolik Cinler Kılavuzu", was published in 2024 (İthaki), and her creative writing companion, "Sıdıka Hanım’ın Büyüleri: Bilinçaltına İnmek İçin 30 Yaratıcı Yazı Egzersizi" in 2025 (Pinhan). Her collection of feminist fairy tales, "Ansuz", will be out in Turkish, English, and Spanish by Libros de Ciempiés in April 2025.